add-on to Shel's answer re: "20's

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Hi Shel, didn't wanna go off-topic in thread where this originated but just thought I 'd add comment about your answer to my ques. in the "ask and answer" game where you responded that you would be back in 20's <in time> - answer reminded me - my Bubbie - grandma - came to the U.S. in the early 20's and she quickly became a flapper! :D She was very "rebellious" as a woman in her time-
 
Really? That's cool. I am rebellious in nature so that's probably why I feel connected to this era..it was a time when women started rebelling against the restraints society placed on them. :)
 
yeah, she smoked, wore pants, swore.....in several languages including Yiddish...unfortunately never found out too much about her because by the time I was old enough to be interested, she was dead.

I agree - think the 20's were a time of great change, especially for women - and then that Prohibition also affected the times too
 
Did she cut her hair like a boy's? I think the 20's brought the uprising of the tomboy.
 
Dixie said:
Did she cut her hair like a boy's? I think the 20's brought the uprising of the tomboy.
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That was a great thing of the 1920's. Women no longer required to have long hair!
 
dogmom said:
yeah, she smoked, wore pants, swore.....in several languages including Yiddish...unfortunately never found out too much about her because by the time I was old enough to be interested, she was dead.

I agree - think the 20's were a time of great change, especially for women - and then that Prohibition also affected the times too
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Your Bubbie sounds interesting. You still can find out more about her thru the oldest living relative.

She probably hung around in a speak-easy (or blind pig) back then.
 
:ty: for advice Buffalo - my oldest living relative that I know of and can reach would be my dad; he's in his late 70's. All my grandparents and any of their siblings dead as well as my dad's only sister. My father's sis had just started doing some research when she died. There's a lotta mystery and unknowns because of the fact that any Jewish and/or Roma relatives that made it over were leaving due to persecution - we even recently found out that my father's original Russian Jewish last name <which the family did change/shorten after some years of being here and which I kept> - may have been bought in order to get here.
I can certainly see her in a speakeasy <interesting..."blind pig">
And yes, in a few pic's we have of her from that time, her hair was short :D
 
dogmom said:
:ty: for advice Buffalo - my oldest living relative that I know of and can reach would be my dad; he's in his late 70's. All my grandparents and any of their siblings dead as well as my dad's only sister. My father's sis had just started doing some research when she died. There's a lotta mystery and unknowns because of the fact that any Jewish and/or Roma relatives that made it over were leaving due to persecution - we even recently found out that my father's original Russian Jewish last name <which the family did change/shorten after some years of being here and which I kept> - may have been bought in order to get here.
I can certainly see her in a speakeasy <interesting..."blind pig">
And yes, in a few pic's we have of her from that time, her hair was short :D
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Start picking his brain! I hope you have your aunt's records (or a copy of it). I do my family tree. I know my surname didn't change and it is unusual name. I only can find it in USA, none in Austria/Germany. I often wonder if it had branched off from a similiar name. It is hard to find my ancestors as they were poor and often moved from one town to another.

I have a book "From Generation to Generation" by Arthur Kurzweil who is a Jewish guy who did his genealogy. Fantastic book. Apparently there are Jewish printers who printed up Jewish genealogies. I don't know where you could find some.

I thought the Roma were Catholics. Are there Jewish Roma???
 
Hi Buffalo, as far as I know, not jewish AND Roma <sorry for confusion> ....some Roma <"Gypsy"> somewhere in my mother's lines on the patrilineal side.
Part of my dad's side, Russian Jewish- his mother's - and part unknown. We have almost no documents. My dad really doesn't know anything about his mom, she didn't want to discuss her past before U.S. as far as I know. I would need to do some formal Jewish geneological search which may or may not cost anything to really get anywhere. With two new part-time jobs, a young Rottie and an elderly dog with special needs don't really have the time for detailed ancestry-digging-

I appreciate your thoughts, Buffalo :)
 
Hmm, far as I know we have no Jewish members in our family - but I do know we are a mix of Swede, Irish, and Scottish. Not only that our family is spread out all over the globe, we have a second cousin living in Japan and works as a school teacher. We have another that resides in France as a missionary, and I'm sure there are even some extended relatives that still live in the Old World in Sweden and the UK.
 
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